RE: \underbar not allowing line-breaking

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:51 13/08/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Hans wrote:
>
> > % output=pdftex
> >
> > \starttext
> >
> > \definetextbackground
> >    [underbared]
> >    [alternative=1,location=text,
> >     background=,frame=]
> >
> > \def\underbared
> >    {\groupedcommand
> >       {\starttextbackground[underbared]}
> >       {\stoptextbackground}}
> >
> >
> > \underbared{\input tufte\relax}
> >
> > \stoptext
> >
> > typical an example for a MyWay document -)
>
>Thanks! I've been looking through core-pos to try to understand how I can
>change the look of this. I can set the colour of the line with framecolor,
>but I can't seem to adjust the offset. The default appears to be overlay,
>but this looks ugly as an underline, as it obscures the baseline of the
>text. I have tried offset=, frameoffset= and backgroundoffset=, but no
>change occurs.
>
>Then I also tried getting rid of the alternative=1 (what does this do?) and
>putting frame=off,bottomframe=on, but this produced no output at all.
>
>Is there a way to do it?

you can redefine the metapost graphic, the main thing there is that you 
draw/fill something related to the multipar paths; it takes a bit of 
experimenting, but after a while you start seeing possibilities. See 
plus-rul.tex for an example of such a graphic.

Hans
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